Incentives needed to curb spending. It comes as no surprise to hear anti-tax activist Grover
Norquist talk about tax cuts, but it does come as a surprise to
hear him raise the subject of pink unicorns. Pink unicorns are purely imaginary—a trait he says they share
with the spending curbs that Republicans hope to get from the
administration in exchange ... MORE
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Showing posts with label evidence. Show all posts
Jacob Sullum: Drug Dealing And Legal Stealing
Is motel owner responsible for the behavior of guests? At the Cosmopolitan, a luxury
hotel and casino in Las Vegas, "just the right amount of wrong" is
the naughty fun you get for $200 a night. At the $57-a-night Motel
Caswell in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, just the right amount of wrong
is what the federal government says it needs to take the business ... MORE
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drug war,
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theft,
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Andrew Napolitano: Silencing General Petraeus
The judge connects the dots. The evidence that Gen. David Petraeus, formerly the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the author of the current Army field manual, Princeton Ph.D. and, until last week, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was forced to resign from the CIA to silence him is far stronger than is the version of ... MORE
Juror In Cannabis Nullification Case Speaks Out!
Doing justice, not merely law enforcement. As reported earlier, a NH jury has found a man not guilty of growing cannabis in the first-ever (that I know of) use of jury nullification in NH! Now one of the jurors, who happens to be a Free State Project participant, Cathleen, is speaking out. Below is her written statement about her experience on the ... MORE
Joe Carter: Why People Prefer Government To Markets
Economic illiteracy is a problem. "People do not love markets,” says Pascal Boyer of the International Cognition & Culture Institute, “there is a lot of evidence for that.” Sadly, Boyer is right and I suspect he’s right about the cause too: People do not like markets because people seem not to understand much about market economics. We don’t fully ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Sports Versus Politics
Empirical evidence has great value. It has long seemed to me that there is far more rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in politics and in commentaries on politics. What has puzzled me is why this is so, when what happens in politics has far more serious effects on people's lives. To take one common example, there are many people ... MORE
VIDEO: Man Shot And Killed By Cops For Defending Home
Death by government. Are police protectors of liberty or just agents of the state?
Daily Mail: It's Too Doggone Easy To Search For Drugs
Police utilize pooch that alerts for drugs in every car. A dog with a sharp nose for drugs can be a great asset to any police department, but in the case of a German shepherd named Bono, accuracy is not his strongest suit. The four-legged crime fighter working for the Virginia State Police has been on a hot streak, detecting drugs nearly every time he’s on the ... MORE
Patrick Brennan: The Inequality Fetish
Does unequal income cause economic ills? There must be something in the water in Scandinavia: Nobel laureates, from our president to Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, all agree that high levels of inequality are a serious problem, if not the problem, facing our weak economy. According to this liberal thesis, either the 2008 financial ... MORE
Russell Cook: Global Warming's Killer Is Critical Thinking
Let's require evidence, not just belief. Is there any issue more dependent on widespread lapses in critical thinking than the idea of man-caused global warming? Nothing wrecks an argument faster than a question revealing a gaping hole in that argument's fundamental premise. Notice the abundantly obvious derailment in this example: "We ... MORE
VIDEO: Bath Salts, Naked Zombie Cannibals & Senators
It is clear which of the three do society the most damage.
R B Parrish: Supremes Uphold Your Right To Be Framed
"A prosecutor ... may receive absolute immunity from suit for acts violating the Constitution in order to advance important societal values." -Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, 2009 After the Civil War, Congress passed several civil rights laws, including one allowing anyone whose said rights had been violated to sue those ... MORE
Darlene Storm: Your Car May Used Against You In Court
There is a little black box spy hiding in your vehicle. When you are car shopping, how many times has a salesman pitched the 15 to 30 specific data elements constantly being collected by the car's black box as you drive? Probably never, but there's electronic data everywhere and that includes your car collecting digital evidence which might turn into the star witness ... MORE
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automobile,
court,
database,
evidence,
information,
monitor,
regulation,
spying,
surveillance
Jacob Sullum: Self-Defense Under Attack
A blind disregard for the evidence. Critics of Florida's self-defense law object to its recognition of a right to "stand your ground" in public places, which eliminated the duty to retreat from an assailant. Yet many of these critics seem to believe they have a duty to stand their ground and never retreat, using George Zimmerman's shooting of Trayvon ... MORE
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crime,
evidence,
force,
gun rights,
individual liberty,
law,
murder,
states' rights,
violence
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